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(...) Philo, Have you seen this? (URL) amazingly like your SR flop schematics. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Philo, Hey! Great stuff! I've been aware of the electrical equivalence, but not mentioned it. Maybe if you put capacitors in series at the inputs of each flop, your test points might have less vertical slope. I'll probably use the simulator to (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (URL) such a mechanism I built in my latest sumobot... (sorry, bad photograph) Two gear shifts are activated at the same time, one for right wheels, the other for left wheels. The gearshift is activated by a motor controlled by RCX, gearing (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Yes, thank you - you explained it very well. The day after posting the question, I realized a differential would solve the problem... but you stated the solution far more clearly than I had thought of it. Now, of course, I'm trying to think (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) There was a rumour that 2.0 would have a power jack, which proved to be false when it came out. Personally I also sometimes use a stabilized 9V 1.5A supply, but as the others said, be careful with that. Jürgen (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi Kevin and all, I wanted to experiment with your sequencers without fussing too much with time consuming building, so I used simulation... I used a free electronics simulator, CircuitMaker Student ((URL) Piston + switch are equivalent to an (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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"Elizabeth Mabrey" <emabrey@storming-robots.com> wrote in message news:HoMq73.B9J@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) ceased (...) I (...) OK, I have the problem fixed. You may not like the remedy, but it worked lastnight flawlessly. Oh, and the PCMCIA USB (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Agreed... but batteries end have the right geometry so RCX holder prevents backwards insertion. Philo (22 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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i'm Chris. i must apologize and yeah, i find it irritating to get back a bunch of acks or to get a 'send receipt' notice from a mailing list/newsgroup when reading. in defense, the yahoo groups(where i post alot) appear to strip out the requests so (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Just about every time I read a message from "Chris" in this newsgroup, my browser asks if I want to send a reply indicating I received the message. I have some problems with this. First of all I don't like having e-mail trigger unexpected activity. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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